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Angela Merkel, Germany's first female chancellor, ended the "Merkel era" in 2021 after 16 years and with it a remarkable rise from "Kohl's girl" to "the most powerful woman in the world". Today their legacy is overshadowed by the climate crisis, Russia and the refugee issue. Two and a half years after her departure, the documentary series sheds light on the key years of her career and chancellorship, including Samira El Ouassil, LeFloid, Marina Weisband and Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. The series focuses on the view of the “Merkel Generation” on the chancellorship of the first woman at the head of Germany.

Rosa Bernhard, a young journalist, investigates the death of an American tourist named Zofia, who died following a night out at a nightclub called Reaktor.

Follows a con artist who reinvents himself as the heir of an Arabic fortune.

At the end of the XIX century in Russia, Prince Dimitri Necklivdov is called as a jury-man in a trial. The defendant is Katiuscia Maslova, accused of murdering a merchant in order to rob him. Dimitri recognizes Katiuscia: she was the girl he seduced many years before. Dimitri decides to save her.

In the eight-part program U3000 (2000), broadcasted by the music station MTV, Schlingensief assumes the role of the presenter who hates himself for his self-love disguised as telegenic selflessness. Common broadcasting formats are all being ridiculed without exception. A socially needy family can qualify for participation by winning the always same outside bet, in order to make their private fate public in front of a running camera and in the presence of passengers in the moving subway. Childlike rounds of games give them the opportunity to improve social welfare, critically watched by a jury made up of the handicapped actors from Schlingensief's ensemble. Aged show stars like Maria and Margot Hellwig, Christian Anders or Roberto Blanco are used in a talk-show wagon as cheap fodder and are forced to show compassion with such victims of the market economy. The bands of the MTV generation (Atari Teenage Riot, Surrogat, Söhne Mannheims and others) play in the dance wagon.

"StarStarSpace" is a sloppily animated web series about the USS Duck, which has adventures no human has ever seen in the Earth shadow of Star Trek, Star Wars and EverythingReallyEverythingWithStarExterior. "Misheard Movie Titles" is the collection of your favorite misheard movies. And Coldmirror draws that shit. Over and over again. Every two weeks. Or more often. Unless it's a big break.

Andreas Kaiser returns to his Bavarian hometown of Schexing after around 15 years. The mayoral elections are coming up, but there is no one who wants to take over the office. Municipal treasurer Nelz and town hall manager Rosi Specht see Andreas as the ideal candidate. Inexperienced as he is, they believe they have an easy game with him. A mistake, as it soon turns out. No less stubborn than his father, farmer Ludwig Kaiser, Andreas throws himself into his work, develops unusual ideas and slowly but surely begins to turn the idyllic village upside down. Which doesn't meet with everyone's approval.

Kanzleramt is a German television series based on the template of the American tv series The West Wing. It is primarily set in the office of fictional Chancellor of Germany Andreas Weyher, telling stories about the German head of government's political career and private life as a widower and father of a teenage daughter. It was neither a critical nor ratings success, and was cancelled after twelve episodes.

A Black Forest village seems like an idyll - until the popular local GP dies. The village cop thinks it’s murder. And one murder leads to more...

Animated TV series of the classic children's book about Sock, the little raven, and his friends.

The adventures of teenage dinosaur/madcap inventor DINOMITE and his wild and unruly human pet, LUCY in the sleepy but eccentric dinosaur town of Fernham.

Sandokan is called by his friend Yáñez, now attached to the maharani Surama, to help them against her cousin Raska treacherous plans. Journalist lady Dora and photographer Alfred, on their side, pursue the famous rebel pirate to get an interview. They will go together through danger and adventure. The third chapter in the "Sandokan" saga starred by Kabir Bedi.

Chief Inspectors Arthur Bauer from "5113" in Munich, Karin Reuter from Cologne, Jan Reuter from Wismar, Martina Seiffert from Stuttgart, and Hajo Trautzschke from Leipzig must work with their teams to solve the murder of a police officer and deal with a motorcycle club where kidnapping, prostitution, and blackmail are the order of the day.

Der Bastian is a German television series written by Barbara Noack, broadcast in 13 episodes between 1972 and 1973 on ZDF.

Funny, fast and furry - the WOODLIES are nuttier than a squirrel’s lunch, on a mission to protect their forest from the human Uglies and get their paws on the biggest stash of food they can find! Big job when you’re not much bigger than a squirrel...

Zwei Ärzte sind einer zu viel is a German television series.

A unique twist to the talent show genre, spotlighting the lesser-known relatives of celebrities as they sing duets alongside their incognito famous family members. A studio audience, doubling as contestants, engages in a guessing game through a series of rounds and clues, with a chance to win up to $100,000 by identifying the concealed celebrity connection before the big reveal.

Patriach Alex reigns over the magnificent country estate Endellion with a mildness that infuriates his eldest son Stephen, a high-powered financier, but perfectly suits his younger, more relaxed son Charles. After many years of unruffled tranquility, life at Endellion is about to enter a turbulent new phase with the return of Stephen's ex-wife, and division over her granddaughter Abby, whose mother had died never revealing the father's name.

Electrical specialist salesman Ruediger Bunz knows famous people only from television. Simple knitted and satisfied with his life. For his wife, he cooks the best goulash and older ladies he repairs the vacuum cleaner. However, with the rest, it is almost overnight when he cast off the street for a commercial.

This drama portrays the turbulent life of Lee Mi Reuk, a Korean expatriate who fought for the freedom of his country while studying medicine in Tokyo, during the period when Korea was under Japanese colonial rule. He fled to China and eventually settled in Germany.

Der Millionenbauer is a German television series.

Menzinger, an easy-going mechanic, is appointed as a juror by the Munich District Court. With no way to avoid the assignment and no possibility of negotiation with recently transferred judge, Dr. Julia Kellermann, Charlie reluctantly resigns himself to his fate. Instead of continuing in his life as a mechanic, lying under old Italian sports cars of his friend Xaver, Charlie quickly realises that his new position offers certain advantages. His time as a lay judge, however, may change him more than he could imagine.

4 post pubertals are searching their place in life at Berlin

Hamburg 1973. When the well-known women's rights activist Zarah Wolf receives the offer to become Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the high-circulation magazine "Relevant", the dedicated journalist sees the opportunity to push forward the issue of emancipation.

Sophie – Braut wider Willen is a German melodramatic Telenovela set in the 19th century. A tale of a forbidden love and intrigue in a Germany of past times.

Familie Sonnenfeld is a German television series.